Spiritual Partnership and Submission

Your relationship with Spirit is the spiritual equivalent of a marriage or business partnership, which means that you work together for the highest good, but you might be wondering what dynamics this special relationship needs to have. The healthiest dynamic in your spiritual partnership depends greatly on the nature of your spirit partners.

God is not your spiritual equal and a partnership with the Creator requires reverence, worship, submission and servitude. Although you might perceive angels as being on a higher spiritual plane than you, God created the angels to serve mankind. Your relationship with angels is more balanced and should not include worship and submission. Treat them as you would treat your friends, in a balanced give-and-take dynamic (except that with human friendships you give to your friend in return, but with angels you are to give to God).

Spirit guides and Ascended Masters are on a higher plane than you, but they work to teach and assist you so that you may go forward and teach and assist others, and that makes your relationship with guides and Ascended Masters slightly more complex. Although angels can act as spirit guides, angels do not request anything of you and other spirit guides and the Ascended Masters ask that you serve other people as they (the guides and Masters) serve you. They will make it very clear to you when they want you to do something on their behalf for another person.

If you ignore the requests of your spirit guides and the Ascended Masters, your relationship with them may suffer for it. They might pull back from you and not provide as much guidance and assistance, and they could even choose to move on and work with someone who has a more willing heart and mind than you. However, when God or His angels communicate to you, it is never a demand that carries with it the threat of abandonment. You cannot have faith in your spirit guides or Ascended Masters the same way you do with God, which is why it is appropriate to worship the Creator and not any other spirit or being existing on the planes between you and God.

A simple way to look at the relationships with Spirit is that you could but are not likely to ever move to a lower spiritual plane yourself, so you do not worship spirits on lower planes (including angels) and you only give to them if you desire to. You have the ability to evolve and transcend to higher spiritual planes and be closer to the Creator (both in this life and after: you can become a spirit guide or Ascended Master), so you accept the service of spirits and beings on the planes between you and God and serve them when it does not conflict with your servitude to God. You can love and appreciate your other partners in Spirit, but you give your faith, reverence, and worship to God.

~*~Monica Who~*~

Spirit and Synchronicity

Synchronicity is one of the most common ways that Spirit communicates with us, yet it is often overlooked or regarded as simple coincidence. Carl Jung coined the phrase "synchronicity" in the 1920's to refer to his philosophical concept of "meaningful coincidence." Synchronicity is simply described as the experience when two or more events occur in a meaningful manner without a causal relationship between them (none of the events directly caused another, but rather they happened simultaneously or in a short period of time without any causal connections between them).

Have you ever had a series of "coincidental events" lead you to a life changing experience, or a chance meeting with someone special? It happens far more often than you may think! Our angels and guides communicate with us on a subconscious level all the time, and when we respond to seeming "random thoughts" it can set off a whole chain of events that you (and maybe even your favourite psychic) never saw coming!

The experience of synchronicity brings to mind many questions of free will and destiny. Is the Universe playing you like a puppet? Is Spirit influencing your thoughts on a subconscious level in order to manipulate your free will, thus creating your destiny? Personally speaking, I believe so. I believe synchronicity is a perfect example of limited free will; that is the belief that we only have free will if it does not directly conflict with the Universal Will, or God's plan, whichever term you're most comfortable with.

Please share your thoughts and experiences about Spirit and Synchronicity! I would love to discuss this topic with you. (Your comments to this post may be quoted in future blog articles.)